4/28/19 To Dos

Fresh cut peppermint

Today’s tea flavor is peppermint. 

Today’s list

Breakfast

Chores

Incubator set up

Plant tomatoes herbs: oops never got there

Clean chick brooder: didn't get there either, but tomorrow for sure!

Nest boxes: didn't manage that either

Shade cloth: didn't even go there

Desk Ta Da managed to get the desk top cleaned off!

Afternoon chores

Laundry: folded up and put away the ones on the line, managed to wash and hang out another load

Dishes   Did 15 on dishes while dinner cooked

Clean coop And compost   got a small coop cleaned out and another compost pile started

Oyster shell  If you don't know oystershell is calcium carbonate and is needed by laying hens to make hard egg shells.

Of course the list is impossibly long. Yes but I didn't get too worked up over it and actually took it kind of easy today.

The big tall cardboard box is full of egg cartons. Behind it is my vintage 1950s redwood incubator. My little tabletop model cooked a batch of eggs and I need to get some chicks hatched before it’s too hot. So that incubator needs to move....

Over here where I can plug it in. 

Took me 30 minutes to accomplish a move of about 10 feet.

I did manage 30 on the desk. There is still more to do but a lot of it I’m not sure what I’m going to do with yet so just going to rest on what I’ve gotten done for now.



That vintage incubator came right up to temp and held steady all afternoon. So 72 eggs went in tonight.